约亚夫(汤姆·梅西尔 Tom Mercier 饰)是一名以色列退伍军人,他非常向往法国浪漫而又开放的风气,于是只身一人来到了巴黎,结果却惨遭打劫,身上的财物被洗劫一空,就在这个紧要关头,一对艺术家情侣卡洛琳(昆汀·多尔马尔 Quentin Dolmaire 饰)和艾米勒(露易丝·谢维洛特 Louise Chevillotte 饰)向约亚夫伸出了援手,令他免于流落街头的厄运。
Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.